The same thing is happening in my state now as of an update from a few hourd ago; apparently the program in its entirety is at risk of being shut down without federal funding. With my sister recently unemployed, we're all more or less surviving on my minimal income. She applied for EBT a month ago-

Had to take Crinkle to urgent care tonight for lethargy & labored breathing. Vets suspected pneumonia, put her on antibiotics. Total cost was $110 but this has stretched an already tightly-wound budget. If anybody can spare a few bucks, Venmo is @moonomyth. Will refund anything over limit.

Eventually, people will relearn that streamers who complain like that view their audience as finite commodities and not as people who deserve to enjoy and engage with whoever they want, whenever they want, for whatever reason they want.

Watched the Boy and the Heron and a new fear unlocked in me. Birds with a beak full of human teeth. No thanks.

Someone randomly asked me for help getting the Wolverine Achievement in Rivals with Groot. Got it on my first try! Now, if I can just get 4 more friends added, I can get one of my last achievements.

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Sometimes people will call you out for being vain AND for not being “feminine” and caring about your appearance enough People who set impossible standards or who make it clear you’re not x or y enough and try to change you instead of just accepting or walking away aren’t worth your effort because

I think the most enheartening thing I've watched lately was the last couple episodes of Dr. Stone. I'm so exhausted by themes of futility and gratuitous suffering or loss in everything. The world needs more Suikas.

It's so weird to only be talking to people who ask what's wrong and then actually want to hear what's wrong. 90% of the time, it's something that'll take time to pass, but it's still nice not to have people who are going to make a fight out of something that doesn't even involve them.

I got prescribed Ozempic instead of Mounjaro on account of insurance stuff. My sister injected me with it for the first time because I'm too much of a baby. I love her even if I whine about her. QvQ Ouch, though.

I've heard things are bound to get worse before they get better, but this is ridiculous.

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I may go ahead and either private or outright delete my entire old social media account. I don't think there's anyone left there that might still contact me who hasn't moved over or disappeared entirely. I don't want my handle getting snagged for nefarious purposes, though.

Speaking of my sister, she was told a few weeks ago by her boss that they'd be talking about increasing her pay for the extra tasks she'd been given only to blindside her today and fire her today, on Bub's birthday. Since it's an at will employment job, she doesn't have any way of dealing with that.

A while ago, I was being encouraged by my sister to try Ozempic for weight loss, which I ultimately decided not to do because I wasn't diabetic (also scared of pokey) and I tried changing my diet and exercising instead. Well, guess who's diabetic? It's me. She's psychic.

I've avoided going to the doctor for a long time now, but I finally did it. Things aren't as bad as I was scared of and I'm finally getting help with some stuff. But more needle stabbies in my near future. QvQ

I don't know if I can stomach going back to DBD but adding Springtrap, and now both a Thai killer and survivor has me considering it very strongly.

I LOVE IT AND I LOVE SONO. I genuinely thought she forgot, but she was cooking all along!

I think we can come together as a community and subvert the "I have something important to tell you" hacked account scams by starting a culture of just being upfront and getting to the point in DM's 😀 No more "hey" or "Can I ask you a question" just write a DM like you're writing a letter plEASE

How do you call someone and tell them that you were trying to call a state office (after midnight), so they tell you that they don't have the info for said office, and you call them rude? What?

I'm considering incentivizing my kid maintaining his own hygiene routine without reluctance by offering a small allowance per week. He's much more punctual and voluntary about his small chorelist (feeding cats, taking out trash, putting away laundry, etc) than he is about washing his dang face.

Someone was making light of obesity in America, and I pointed out that the obesity percentage in their country is (surprisingly) higher. They responded that there're more people in America. Percentages, though.

Going to come right out and say I vented about my sister specifically a while back on here the way I did to do a check on someone trying to instigate problems for me and my loved ones, and he stepped directly into it. Like she said, she already knows. You wanted to cut contact. Stay off my socials.

There's not a whole lot of me to know (and that's on me), but what little there is anyone who's known me as a passing Vtuber can probably tell you is: I'm not involved in interpersonal Vtuber things. I don't keep up with it, I don't insert myself into it, I don't instigate it. Don't involve me.

I've been spending a lot of time trying to help Bub with his hygiene, skin, and hair care to encourage better habits. I only recently started bothering with skin and haircare myself, so I have no idea what I'm doing. Bless my boyfriend and my guy friends who are willing to share their experiences.

If you feel relieved that someone you were talking to cut you off, you're definitely better off without them. You might get some pangs of short-term pain or anxiety, but you'd feel the same way having a decaying tooth removed or an abcess drained. It's better for you in the long run.

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Wrote an article for @theshot.net.au about ‘debate content’, how it’s terrible for society and why we need to stop indulging in it. “Ultimately, if debating dickheads worked, we wouldn’t be in a situation where dickheads are making the world a worse place.” theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

My sister bought some beard dye to tint my eyebrows. Turns out that you need to have eyebrows to tint them, and peach fuzz doesn't really qualify.

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I hope they actually do go through with making an Aegon the Conqueror series. Just once in that universe, I want to see competent leaders improving the realm. Not just one but three of them simultaneously. Somehow, I know they're going to mess it up, but I can dream. It's fantasy, after all.

I know I don't share much about myself, so here's a glimpse! ;u; ✨ #MeetTheArtist (obs: I don't actually listen to rock sorry)

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Everyone I see talking about GoT/ASoIaF talks about how great Ned Stark was. How honorable, how honest, how noble. 1. He never once told Robert the truth that Lyanna told him early on she didn't want to marry Robert because he was a drunken brute who started fathering children on women before they-

Mallow, in all his glory, talking to his second biggest fan.

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A little more of this prolonged flooding of Mastercard and Visa, and there may be a full on turn around.

Maybe someone should set up a subscription service where, for a small fee, you could be contacted weekly with a check-in, reminders about bills or other weekly events, and memos to check in with people, yourself. Like a pseudo-acquaintance/secretary hybrid service.

God, the school fees for my son have gone up so much since last year. On top of that, he outgrew almost his entire wardrobe from his shirts to his socks and shoes. That plus school supplies, even what I took pains to save up these past couple months just isn't enough. It's so much more hurtful--

I'm of the opinion that there are enough terrible, disgusting, revulsive things going on in the world to be upset about that fabricating or exaggerating mundane things to outrage, despair, and distract people is a heinous thing to do, especially if it's done purely out of ignorance.

The worst thing about rekindling my interest in the Song of Ice and Fire books is rediscovering why I despise Catelyn and, to a lesser extent, Eddard. But on the bright side, Podrick, Brienne, and Bronn, so that's neat.

There are definitely bots on Bsky. I don't know why I was living in a stubborn delusion of my own making that there wouldn't be some kind of scam bots here, but there's a growing number of spam accounts using the same link with slightly changed messages diverting through the Discovery trending tags.

Just had a long and exhausting fight about not wanting my family to force my son to mask his autism the way they specifically point out themselves that *I* learned to mask. "Well, look at you, you did it, and you're fine." It's the most innocuous thing that he doesn't deal with social cues--

I created these animated alerts for Krone from 2023! Illustrated with Clip Studio Paint, animated with Live2D. #animation #Vtuber #Live2D

Always kind of impressed at how my sister manages to sleep every day in a bed filled with a week's worth of nasty, half-eaten dishes without knocking any of them onto the floor.

So, WFM guy here, I crunch call center numbers all day and advise management on performance and staffing requirements. Here are some concrete goals to keep in mind with any sort of calling campaign: 🧵

This whole thread is a gem, but this part especially struck a chord with me. The 'I can fix you/Something is wrong with you' mentality is so much more traumatizing and quietly pervasive than you'd think when you're actually in relationships with non ace people as an ace-spectrum person.--

I don't know why so many fantasy stories have to follow the trope of 'Things used to be so much cooler and more magical and amazing a long, long time ago. Now, here's a story set in the most morose, mundane present where everyone talks about how cool it used to be, and that's all you get.'